AUTOMATED TRANSIT VALIDATION RULE UPDATING

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for automatically determining and implementing fare validation rules based on analysis of rejected transactions from one or more fare validators. In some embodiments, a server or other monitoring system can monitor rejected transactions, determine a common characteristic among all the rejected transactions, and create a validation rule change that would permit the use of fare media having the common characteristic. In some embodiments, the validation rule change may be reviewed and/or modified by a transit agent or other human supervisor. Accordingly, among other benefits, validation rule changes can be automatically created and quickly implemented where a number of rejected transactions indicate previous validation rules may be incorrect.

主权项

1. A computer server comprising:
a communication interface configured to obtain a plurality of rejected transactions from one or more fare media validators of a transit system, each rejected transaction of the plurality of rejected transactions indicative of when a fare media was not able to be validated by one of the one or more fare media validators of the transit system; and a processing unit coupled with the communication interface and configured to:
analyze the plurality of rejected transactions to determine at least one common characteristic among all rejected transactions of the plurality of rejected transactions causing, at least in part, the rejection of each rejected transaction of the plurality of rejected transactions;determine a validation rule change based on the analysis of the plurality of rejected transactions, wherein:
the validation rule change is a change in one or more validation rules used by the one or more fare media validators of the transit system, andthe validation rule change, when implemented by the one or more fare media validators of the transit system, is configured to cause the one or more fare media validators of the transit system to allow future transactions having the at least one common characteristic, resulting in the one or more fare media validators of the transit system validating fare media used in the future transactions; and send, via the communication interface, information indicative of the validation rule change to the one or more fare media validators.